Know What's Happening in HealthTech
Know What's Happening in HealthTech
OpenText unveiled its AI‑powered Fax Aviator at HIMSS, aiming to modernize healthcare fax workflows. The solution claims up to 85% labor savings by automating extraction, classification, and routing, and can process 2‑3 times more faxes without additional staff. Features such as Assist, Route, and Summary enable context‑aware guidance, accurate routing, and rapid content summarization. By turning fax into a paperless, digital workflow, OpenText promises faster patient intake and reduced administrative burden.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s NHS digital transformation faces warnings of nurse burnout. A Society of Occupational Medicine study of 339 nurses found digital technology stress significantly drives emotional exhaustion and burnout. While AI and digital tools can improve disease management...
Researchers at Penn State have unveiled a dual‑gate graphene field‑effect transistor that remains stable in liquid environments, eliminating the signal drift that hampers conventional sensors. By pairing a high‑capacitance top gate with a low‑capacitance bottom gate and adding a feedback...
GE HealthCare has initiated a Class 2 FDA recall of its Centricity Universal Viewer after discovering a cybersecurity flaw that could expose user login credentials on local workstations. The vulnerability threatens system availability and data integrity, prompting an Urgent Medical Device...
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On 17 March the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) in South Africa lost access to its TrakCare information system after a power outage at its Johannesburg head office, revealing the absence of backup power. NHLS provides diagnostic pathology for over 80 %...
Our bottleneck for some of the biggest change ahead may be humans. I shared the story of Paul Conyngham and his dog Rosie on my Instagram when it broke. When I read the coverage, my shock was less that ChatGPT...
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute created a machine‑learning model that scans MRI images and achieved 92.87% accuracy in distinguishing Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive impairment from healthy brains. The algorithm highlighted volume loss in the hippocampus, amygdala and entorhinal cortex...
Healthcare technology is accelerating, but clinicians’ trust remains the linchpin for successful deployment. Senior Executive Changemaker Awardee Kassaundra McKnight-Young stresses that vendors must partner closely with clinicians to build reliable, workflow‑friendly tools. Such collaboration aims to streamline clinical processes and...
Kassaundra McKnight‑Young, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra Technologies, urges emerging healthcare leaders to partner directly with bedside clinicians. She stresses that understanding clinicians’ day‑to‑day technology needs is essential for creating people‑centered solutions. By listening to care teams, leaders can design...
Kern County Public Health has deployed a new AI‑enabled, five‑lead portable electrocardiogram that delivers 12‑lead diagnostics to EMTs. Within weeks of the Feb. 1 rollout, Hall Ambulance EMTs used the device to identify a myocardial infarction in a home patient, enabling...
Researchers have advanced electronic nose (e‑nose) technology, pairing dense sensor arrays with AI to detect odors with up to 1,000 times human precision. The systems can decompose volatile compounds, enabling applications such as breath‑based infection screening, indoor air quality monitoring,...
Lenovo announced three new servers at CES 2026 designed for AI inferencing at the edge, specifically targeting healthcare environments. The devices enable large language models to run locally on low‑power hardware, cutting latency and avoiding cloud round‑trips. By processing sensor and...
Researchers placed the multimodal LLM Gemini Pro 2.5 into the BodyInteract acute‑care simulation and evaluated it across four emergency scenarios. The AI stabilized patients and completed cases at rates comparable to, and often faster than, more than 14,000 medical‑student runs, with diagnostic...
Welldoc released new real‑world evidence showing its AI‑driven, CGM‑informed insulin bolus calculator improves glycemic control. Over a three‑month period, users who engaged the calculator more than half the time increased Time in Range by 3.2% and Time in Tight Range...
At‑home diagnostic kits are moving preventive health from clinic‑based testing to consumer‑driven monitoring, with companies like Randox Health offering laboratory‑grade panels that can be ordered online, sampled at home, and processed in certified labs. These kits enable users to establish...
On February 20, 2026, the FDA issued warning letters to 30 telehealth companies for misleading claims about compounded GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs such as semaglutide and tirzepatide. The agency highlighted that compounded products are not FDA‑reviewed for safety, efficacy, or quality,...
Allegro Pediatrics, a 100‑provider pediatric group near Seattle, adopted Greenway Health’s AI‑powered ambient voice scribing to automate clinical note creation. The system listens to patient encounters, generates draft notes within the EHR, and lets physicians edit and sign off, eliminating...
Mount Sinai Health System has rolled out CLEAR’s selfie‑based biometric verification across every ambulatory practice and urgent‑care location in New York City. The solution links directly to the MyChart portal, turning identity confirmation into a routine step for both returning...
AI-driven vocal biomarkers are emerging as a rapid, non‑invasive method to screen for a wide range of neurological and mental‑health conditions. Research validates their ability to identify mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s, depression, anxiety, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis and Huntington’s disease from...
Turquoise Health announced a $40 million Series C round, led by Oak HC/FT with participation from a16z, Adams Street Partners and Yosemite. The funding will accelerate its transition from a pricing data vendor to an AI‑driven workflow and transaction operating system that...
Fitbit unveiled the next phase of its AI‑driven personal health coach, boosting sleep‑stage accuracy by 15% and introducing a more granular Sleep Score that tracks latency and interruptions. The company highlighted new research published in *Nature* that predicts insulin resistance...
Google announced a suite of AI‑driven health initiatives, beginning with a partnership in Arkansas to pilot a rural‑health transformation model. The company is allocating $10 million through Google.org to reimagine clinician education alongside leading medical societies. AI enhancements are also rolling...
The review surveys nature‑inspired nanocarriers—viral vectors, extracellular vesicles, liposomes, lipid nanoparticles, and engineered membrane particles—as delivery platforms for CRISPR genome editors. It details how these systems improve editing specificity, lower immunogenicity, and surmount cellular barriers that have limited therapeutic rollout....
The AI in Healthcare Forum convened clinicians, executives, and technologists in Boston to showcase real‑world AI applications across care delivery, operations, and governance. Sessions covered policy frameworks, data challenges, scaling strategies, and emerging clinical AI tools, featuring leaders from Sutter...
As some of you know, my dad has been fighting lung cancer for the past 2 years. If any of you have any experience with the medical system, you know that the family/patient have to be aggressive advocates. Doctors have...
Much of the conversation around healthcare and AI right now pits doctors and AI against each other. This is the wrong framing. Yes, it is important to have studies that look at how good AI is at various tasks that physicians...
Engineers at the University of Hong Kong have unveiled SonoMeta, an AI‑assisted ultrasound lens built from metamaterials that can image heart and lung structures up to 10 cm behind the rib cage with CT‑like resolution. Validation shows spatial resolution under 500 µm...
This week on Lifers, Graham Walker is “sounding the alarm” for physicians. * 50% of medical students already plan to quit before they finish school. * Doctors are becoming "factory employees," losing their authority to care for patients. * Tech focuses on the...
AI‑augmented digital stethoscopes such as the Eko CORE 500 are bringing machine‑learning diagnostics to the bedside. The device records heart sounds, a three‑lead ECG and runs cloud‑based algorithms that flag atrial fibrillation, murmurs and reduced left‑ventricular ejection fraction, with studies reporting...
Gifthealth unveiled an off‑the‑shelf platform that enables manufacturers to offer Most Favored Nation (MFN) pricing through direct‑to‑patient (DTP) programs. The solution leverages Gifthealth’s position as the nation’s largest DTP partner, handling over 90% of U.S. DTP volume and supporting more...
Congrats to @TurquoiseHC on their $40M Series C, led by @oakhcft — ~$100M raised in total. Turquoise is the healthcare price transparency platform trusted by 300+ of the largest health systems, insurers, life sci co's, and employers as...
Hospital of the Future — Advancing smart, connected care through data-driven innovation. Join me for a deep @DigitalDHealth dive with @StephenKonya @jconleymd, Manish Ladha, and Casey Granak This Thursday at 10am PST / 1pm EST for our https://t.co/YGpenFx8zW Studio Series Register here-->...
Kris Narayan argues that today’s health‑tech landscape is split between EMR giants that protect clinical data within the office and consumer‑focused AI tools that demand medical expertise to use. Both approaches fail to engage patients during the daily "micro‑moments" after...
This week's Editor's Choice highlights a study by Valette and colleagues that evaluates a feedback system to improve gait and perception when using a knee prosthesis. @rlvalette Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/pWQ3r6aGLs https://t.co/xqUZp2YyCH
This was a really informative event: @GoogleForHealth @google @fitbit @ALWMedSchool @HeartlandWHI @CMSSmed @AAN_Nursing are doing impressive work in #DigitalHealth and #WearableTech with the goal to advance health, healthcare and patient outcomes.
In early 2026 the world’s leading technology firms launched agentic health AI platforms, shifting from passive information retrieval to proactive health stewardship. Microsoft introduced Copilot Health, aggregating data from over 50,000 U.S. hospitals and dozens of wearable ecosystems, while Amazon...
@Heartflow provides non-invasive coronary analysis from CT scans using AI. Founded 2010. IPO 2025. 600+ publications. ~1,450 US sites. Approx. 2.5 clients per paper. Medtech doesn’t scale like tech. Adoption is the hard part. https://t.co/dJElVTW4EA
It’s not one big delay that hurts care. It’s 60 seconds… repeated 100 times a day. Marianne Soucey explains how tiny workflow friction turns into real patient risk ↓ https://t.co/UjbpWUtOH1 @ConsensusCS @medq_inc #RSNA25 #HITSM https://t.co/6X9UwqHjHx
Finnish health‑tech company ŌURA has launched its Oura Ring 4 in India, available through Cromā stores and Amazon. The titanium smart ring tracks over 50 health indicators and offers personalized insights via a dedicated app. Pricing starts at ₹28,900 for the...
Neurodegenerative diseases at the single-cell level, a powerful tool to differentiate and better understand https://t.co/Pkz4qW0ELM @jclinicalinvest https://t.co/LiJ4FojRYZ
Some clinical updates tell you exactly what they are. Others ask to be read twice. CytomX’s latest CRC data belong firmly in the second category. Is the die cast? https://t.co/dfdPxx4zXs https://t.co/y9QAoahMut
Azara Healthcare has entered the MEDITECH Alliance, linking its Azara DRVS population‑health platform with the MEDITECH Expanse electronic health record. The integration is aimed at community and critical‑access hospitals, offering an out‑of‑the‑box data aggregation layer that combines clinical records, claims...
Newer sepsis diagnostics such as monocyte distribution width (MDW), Intellisep, and MeMed BV are showing promise in early clinical studies but each has distinct limitations. MDW, available on the Beckman Coulter CBC platform, improves sepsis detection when combined with white‑blood‑cell...
Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed a blood test that detects brain tumours with 90% accuracy by measuring a pair of proteins. The test, validated in glioblastoma patients, is being evaluated in a multi‑site clinical trial across six...
Transcarent has added a new “Payment Integrity” category to its Experience Store through a partnership with AI‑driven health‑tech firm Bluespine. The service targets the $300 billion annual loss from fraud, waste and abuse in U.S. healthcare by analyzing every medical and...
A brain-computer interface allowed people with paralysis to type with their minds https://t.co/W5icU6ye8c via @statnews
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Business Area has launched Geomagic Freeform 2026.1, introducing a subscription pricing option alongside perpetual licenses. The update adds a Deform Selection tool, Python scripting for workflow automation, and Haply Robotics haptic integration, while extending DICOM RTSTRUCT support...
Former NHS doctor Farzana Rahman pivoted to entrepreneurship, founding Hexarad, an AI‑powered end‑to‑end radiology platform that delivers diagnoses from CT and MRI scans. After enduring 40 rejections, she secured funding and partnership support from HSBC Innovation Banking, enabling rapid scale‑up....
Cooper University Health Care completed an 18‑month program that lifted device visibility from 25 percent to 100 percent across more than 10,000 IoT and medical devices. The effort relied on passive network‑monitoring tools, rigorous network segmentation, and a new security‑by‑procurement framework. A...
NYU Langone Health has built a structured partnership between nursing informatics and data science that fuels AI tool development and adoption. Since 2019, the collaboration has produced decision‑support models, a pressure‑injury prevention system, and a fall‑prediction tool, all vetted through...
